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A Blinkin' Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

he himself or him himself?

0 Isn't all this done by he himelf?02br
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0 Hello A Blinkin'02br
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00The preposition "by" demands an objective case so it should be "Isn't all this done 01b00by him02b00 himelf?"02br
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0 Shouldn't it be just 01b00by himself02b00? Isn't this a fixed expression by + reflexive pronoun?0-
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0 The fixed expression you're talking about would occur with the active voice.02br
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01i00He did it by himself.02i02br
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00 The 01i00by02i00 in the example sentence is a 'different' 01i00by02i00, if you will. It is the 01i00by02i00 that introduces the agent of the a
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A Blinkin' Isn't all this done by he himelf?
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Isn't all this done by him himself?

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